Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 Administration

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Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 Administration :: [ES-3523]

course schedule			who can benefit
prerequisites			skills gained
other notes			course content
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code.

ES-3523

length.

5 days

type.

Instructor-Led

partner.

Sun Microsystems

price.

$3,500 :: $2,975 GSA GOV.

The Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 Administration course provides students with the essential information and skills to manage disk storage using Veritas Volume Manager(VxVM) and Veritas File System software. Students practice the administrative tasks to build the skills that transfer to their working environments, including planning, implementation, configuration, and administration.

San Francisco, CA	feb.9.2009 - feb.13.2009	register
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New York, NY	feb.23.2009 - feb.27.2009	register
Philadelphia, PA	mar.30.2009 - apr.3.2009	register
St. Paul, MN	nov.17.2008 - nov.21.2008	register

who can benefit

Students who can benefit from this course are system administrators or storage administrators responsible for the management of storage resources in Solaris OS environments, using the Veritas storage software products.

prerequisites

To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:

	Configure the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS)
	Control Solaris OS run levels
	Understand the Solaris OS file system structure
	Perform basic file ownership and protection using the chgrp, chmod, and chown commands
	Perform common file system administration using the format, mkdir, newfs, and mount commands
	Administer Solaris OS packages using the pkgadd, pkgrm, and patchadd commands
	Use basic OpenBoot programmable read-only memory (PROM) commands
	Cable Sun systems and peripherals

skills gained

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

	Investigate Sun storage concepts and examine hardware configurations
	Explore data management concepts
	Install and initialize the Storage Foundation software
	Perform disk drive operations, such as creating a new disk group, adding and removing a disk from a disk group, and displaying properties of VxVM objects
	Examine the association of volumes objects and create volumes and file systems
	Use the Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) to perform disk group, volume, and file system operations
	Perform advanced operations
	Perform advanced VxFS operations
	Analyze basic volume performance

related courses, exams and materials

	before related training and products

SA-202-S10 System Administration for the Solaris 10 Operating System Part 2

	after related training and products

ES-338 Sun Cluster 3.1 Administration

course content details

	Module 1 - Sun Storage Concepts

	Define disk storage management
	Identify storage configurations
	Examine hardware interfaces
	Describe disk storage concepts

	Module 2 - Managing Data

	Describe the concepts and advantages of virtual storage management
	Describe standard RAID terminology
	List the common features of each supported RAID levels

	Module 3 - Veritas Storage Foundation Installation

	List the key elements of pre-installation planning
	Install the Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 software
	Verify the post-installation environment
	Explore the Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) console features
	Describe the VxVM error numbering system

	Module 4 - Veritas Volume Manager Basic Operations

	Control disk storage resources
	Describe the function of VxVM disk groups
	Administer disk groups using command-line programs
	Administer disk groups Using the vxdiskadm utility
	Protect storage devices from usage

	Module 5 - Veritas Volume Manager Volume Operations

	Examine volume components and structures
	Create volumes using the vxassist command
	Add file systems to existing volumes
	Resize volumes and file systems
	Modify volume access attributes
	Administer volume logs
	Removing a volume

	Module 6 - Disk Management Using the VEA GUI

	Creating disk groups, volumes, and file systems
	Administering disks, disk groups, volumes, and file systems

	Module 7 - Veritas Volume Manager Advanced Operations

	Encapsulate and mirror the system boot disk
	Administer hot-relocation
	Evacuate all subdisks from a disk drive
	Move disk drives without preserving data
	Move a populated disk drives to a new disk group
	Back up and restore a disk group configurations
	Describe how to import a disk group after a system crash
	Perform a volume snapshot backups
	Create VxVM layered volumes
	Perform an online volume relayout
	Replace a failed disk drive

	Module 8 - Veritas File System Basic Operations

	Use extended VxFS mount options
	Perform online VxFS administration tasks
	Convert a UFS file system to a VxFS file system
	Add a VxFS file system to a non-global zone

	Module 9 - Veritas Volume Manager Performance Management

	Describe performance improvement techniques
	Use the vxstat and vxtrace performance analysis tools
	Describe RAID-5 write performance characteristics